Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased
mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others …

Current governance structures are increasingly showing inability to address complex issues
such as the Grand Challenges. Dealing with these highly interrelated, cross cutting …

Given the importance of a hermeneutic extension of technology assessment (TA), we should
ask which kind of knowledge can be created from such perspective and whether and how …

The potential societal impacts of automation using intelligent control and communications
technologies have emerged as topics in recent writings and public policy initiatives …

Let us begin by introducing an example with a view to elaborating the concept of
'visioneering'that has been adopted from the historian Patrick McCray and forms the …

If we wish to understand individual responsibility, we first have to deal with the preconditions
of responsibility ascriptions such as the conditions for agency. This was outlined in length in …

Expectations play a distinctive role in shaping emerging technologies and producing hype
cycles when a technology is adopted or fails on the market. To harness expectations …

Objects of responsibility reflections in responsible research and innovation (RRI) emerge at
the intersection of projections about future technology and future society. They intersect in a …

Futures, Visions, and Responsibility Page 1 Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft /
Futures of Technology, Science and Society Martin Sand Futures, Visions, and Responsibility An …

In the previous chapter, the concept of innovation was introduced and critically discussed. It
was argued that innovations are ambivalent and that in order to plan and shape innovation …